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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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5. Still more unreasonably: There are men, bound to human bodies and subject to desire, grief, anger, who think so generously of their own faculty that they declare themselves in contact with the Intelligible World, but deny that the sun possesses a similar faculty less subject to influence, to disorder, to change; they deny that it is any wiser than we, the late born, hindered by so many cheats on the way towards truth. Their own soul, the soul of the least of mankind, they declare deathless…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: NINTH TRACTATE: Section 5

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